“…Successive correction analysis (SCA), optimum interpolation (OI), variational methods (3DVAR and 4DVAR), and Kalman filter (KF) are the primary assimilation techniques utilized in ocean research (Cressman, 1959;Danard et al, 1968;Lorenc, 1981;Courtier et al, 1994;Evensen, 1994). Many objective analysis datasets, e.g., the EN4 analysis dataset (Good et al, 2013), the global gridded Argo dataset (Zhang et al, 2022), and reanalysis datasets, e.g., the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) reanalysis (Carton and Giese, 2008), the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) reanalysis, and the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) reanalysis, have been developed using data assimilation methods. However, as the volume, velocity, variety, and veracity of ocean observation data continue to grow, conventional data assimilation and fusion systems are facing increasingly complicated issues (Bauer et al, 2015;Stammer et al, 2016).…”